BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,135, August 25, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Biden administration’s foreign policy is based on the concept of “legitimacy.” Constantly excusing Iranian actions, including military attacks, in order to pursue supposedly legitimacy-granting negotiations; and admonishing the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,102, July 22, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A recent poll purports to capture the attitudes of American Jews regarding Israel and politics. While the poll boasts the sensational result that 22% of American Jews apparently think …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,035, May 18, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The war between Israel and Hamas has brought a crisis between progressive Democrats and the party headed by President Biden fully into the open. As progressives have racialized the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,015, May 4, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing crisis in American culture has brought two seemingly unrelated trends to the forefront: advocacy of technocratic expertise aimed at solving global issues, and condemnation of America’s allegedly …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,988, April 7, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: America is undergoing a rapid transformation founded in a moral panic over race that masks the exercise of class-based power in which technology companies and left-wing politics have united …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,916, February 4, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Biden administration’s foreign policy is rapidly coming into view. Despite rhetoric designed to mollify Middle Eastern allies, the trajectory of decisions clearly favors a return to the Obama …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,868, January 5, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The incoming Biden administration has begun to appoint personnel and articulate policies, both directly and through the extended voice of the foreign policy establishment and the media. The return …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,821, November 16, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It appears likely that Joe Biden will take office as president of the United States in January, and American allies will need to assess the implications. The reimposition of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,733, September 7, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: With the US Presidential election rapidly approaching, an assessment of US foreign policy is in order. The Trump administration has undertaken conceptual shifts that see China as an adversary …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,641, July 13, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s enthusiasm for the idea of applying Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank can be explained by the desire to seize the historic opportunity created …
